Hany Mahfouz Helal was the

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ian Minister of Higher Education and State Minister for Scientific Research.Egyptian Genetic Engineering Info Net
/ref> Helal served as the Cultural and Scientific Chancellor in the Egyptian embassy in

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. Helal worked as professor in the Faculty of Engineering,

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

(1993), and the Head of Singor University, Alexandria (October 2004). He was as an expert in Earth Sciences Programs of the

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's regional office in

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(1993), and the UNESCO consultant of International Laboratory for Scantron,

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Helal graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University with a B.Sc. in Engineering (with honors) in 1974, and he holds a PhD degree in Earth Sciences (Rock Mechanics and Engineering).

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